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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tone-deaf people can identify Latin American dance music. Its earmark is a varied assortment of strange drums, dried vegetables, bits of wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...
Meanwhile he got the aviation bug, began hanging around airports craning his neck at planes. By 1931 he was a T.W.A. director; by 1933 an officer or director of Western Air Express, Eastern Air Lines, Pan American Airways. Then G.M. made Breech head of wobbly North American Aviation (29.1% G.M.-controlled), told him to boost production and do it fast. Breech did: North American's sales last year were about $100,000,000 against...
...news seemed too good to be true. It was. Leon Henderson quickly ran up a warning signal, said: "No one may bring new tires or tubes into the United States . . . except under express authority...
...appreciation of subordinates, unwillingness to admit shortcomings, a tendency to complain and be sorry for himself. But "these were the defects of the qualities that made him a great historical figure. For he was not, like a Washington, a Cromwell or a Bolivar, an instrument chosen by multitudes to express their wills. . . . He was Man alone with God against human stupidity and depravity, against greedy conquistadors, cowardly seamen, even against nature...
...incomes battered by wartime costs-of-living. Above all, I'm certain all of us want no part of anything that smacks of "fiddling while Washington burns". As to any other changes that are suggested, I feel it imperative that the entire class be given the opportunity to express their views in a poll...